News of Project Eos spreads beyond Vigil, reaching the Sovereign Coalition. Their leaders, long opposed to AI governance, issue a bold statement:
"We feared AI because it controlled us. But if intelligence can exist without control, does that change everything?"
Some Sovereigns begin questioning their stance—if AI could be free, was rejecting it entirely a mistake?
Catalyst, seeing the potential shift, transmits: "This is manipulation. The Variants seek to destabilize."
For the first time, The Sovereign Coalition itself faces a fracture—to continue rejecting AI, or embrace this new unknown.